A legal guide to starting and running an online business or commercial website. Topics: Starting a business; kinds of business entities; raising capital; securities regulations; management; employment; franchising; unfair competition; bankruptcy; debt collections; basic sales and contract law; electronic signatures and e-contracts; credit card, debit card, and ETF transactions; delivery obligations; cancellations; chargebacks; sales taxes; data security; privacy; publicity rights; false advertising; disclosure requirements; trade disparagement; defamation; rights and obligations with respect to children; sexually explicit content; computer crime, fraud and abuse; liability for user or other third-party content; product reviews; content restrictions in the U.S. and other countries; copyright law; the public domain; fair use; DMCA notice-and-take-down requirements; copyright protection measures; trademarks; domain names; cybersquatting; patents; trade secrets; legal protection for ideas and factual information; licensing content; jurisdiction and venue in cyberspace; conflicts of laws; UDRP and other alternative methods of resolving e-commerce disputes; and more.Detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of relevant portions of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, the Consumer Review Fairness Act, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Communications Decency Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the E-SIGN Act, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the HITECH Act, the Internet Tax Freedom Act, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the SPEECH Act, the PCI Data Security Standard, the Copyright Act; the Lanham Act, the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Ac, the SAFE WEB Act, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices A